When one is in trouble, one remembers God. |
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. |
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When we think of life's complexities, it’s pressures and it’s disarray, we find that the best investment is to take the time to pray! |
When you can get people to believe in virgin birth and resurrection of the dead as reality - well, what can one say |
When you give religiously inspired zealots weapons of mass destruction and you promise them that if they kill innocent people they will go to heaven, imagine what the consequences are. |
When you look at organized religion of whatever sort – whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism – wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law. |
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Dalai Lama (1935-) |
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